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...The Indian prime minister will become one of a few foreign leaders, along with Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to address a joint session of Congress more than once....
...A grandson of Roelof “Pik” Botha, the last foreign secretary under South Africa’s Apartheid regime and later a member of Nelson Mandela’s first government, Botha says he always “felt a burden of expectation...
..., National Day South Africa, Freedom Day marking the date when Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994 Thursday US, annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work day Friday UK, Three-time Wimbledon...
...Separately, during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, doctors and researchers from around the world took more than 269,000 blood samples from patients in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia....
...Sierra Leone-born Mr Carnegie-Brown also sits on the board of Spanish bank Santander....
...Others saying “Grace” include Elvis Presley (in 1971), Willie Nelson (1976), and even alt-rock band The Lemonheads (1987)....
...Executive Outcomes was born of a unique confluence of events in 1989, when the institutions underpinning racial segregation in South Africa began dissolving, and the African National Congress of Nelson Mandela...
...the key dates that have linked the US and the African continent over more than 400 years. 1619 Dutch colonists bring the first African slaves to Jamestown, Virginia. 1839 Mende tribesmen from Sierra Leone...
...I first met Jan in Sierra Leone two years ago....
...On his way home from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in December, Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone, stopped off in Angola to discuss an investment in his war-scarred nation....
...Naomi Campbell famously testified in court, saying that a few hours after a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela, she was woken by unidentified men who handed her some “dirty-looking stones”....
...Since 2008, governments from Sierra Leone to the Democratic Republic of Congo have awarded concessions for some 1.5m hectares of land for commercial palm oil plantations, mostly to foreign companies, according...
...This is the first in a series of reports from west Africa by the editor of the FT, who has travelled through Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, from the oil-contaminated Niger delta to teeming Lagos and a...
...“And she said that she intended to give the diamond to Nelson Mandela’s children’s charity.”...
...However, Ms Campbell’s testimony stopped short of directly linking the diamonds to Mr Taylor or to Sierra Leone....
...Prosecutors say Mr Taylor may have received the diamonds from Sierra Leone rebels, which could prove his complicity in war crimes during the country’s civil war....
...former agent for Naomi Campbell on Tuesday backtracked on claims that she had heard Charles Taylor, former Liberian president, offer to give the British supermodel diamonds during a charity dinner hosted by Nelson...
...Prosecutors believe Mr Taylor may have received the stones from Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for weapons during that country’s civil war....
...Yes, Ms Campbell remembered getting a bag of diamonds from two strange men in the middle of the night after a party thrown by Nelson Mandela, at which Mr Taylor was present....
...It did not expect to be in any of the places it fought instead: Belfast, Port Stanley, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan. The other argument relates to sea-blindness....
...Although Clegg wrote election anthems for the ANC and performed “Asimbonanga”, a roll-call of the missing and murdered of the apartheid years (also covered by Joan Baez), at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration...
...The interventions of the 1990s and “noughties” in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and in smaller ways in Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo and Sudan, have rarely been without large bloodshed...
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